Novels

Kunio Yamagishi

Born in Fukushima, Japan, and after the university education, I moved to Canada and worked at the Consulate General of Japan in Toronto as a researcher. I then worked in Toronto, Tokyo, and New York, as an investment banker and now live in British Columbia, Canada, as a Canadian citizen. My publications have included short […]

Leanne Toshiko Simpson

Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer and psychiatric survivor from Scarborough, Ontario. She is a graduate of UTSC Creative Writing and the University of Guelph’s MFA program. Currently, she is a doctoral student in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto, studying the intergenerational impact of Japanese Canadian internment. She teaches courses […]

Tamura Toshiko

Toshiko Tamura (Tamura Toshiko) was the pseudonym of early modern feminist novelist, Toshi Satō (Satō Toshi). Born in the Asakusa district of Tokyo, Tamura enrolled in the faculty of literature at Japan Women’s University at the age of seventeen. However, due to health issues she was forced to withdraw after one term. Despite no formal […]

Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear is a Canadian writer, essayist and beloved children’s author. She was born in London, England (to a British father and Japanese mother) and moved to Toronto at the age of four. Her books have been translated into fourteen languages, and published in twenty countries. Kyo lives in Toronto, Canada,

Leslie Shimotakahara

Leslie Shimotakahara is a fourth-generation Japanese-Canadian writer, who resides in Toronto. Leslie holds a B.A. in English from McGill and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Brown in Modern American Literature. Her first book, a memoir called The Reading List, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2012, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the KM […]